+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+namespace std {
+#if _MSC_VER <= 1310
+ // Work around flawed VC++ implementation of std::uninitialized_copy. Define
+ // additional overloads so that elements with pointer types are recognized as
+ // scalars and not objects, causing bizarre type conversion errors.
+ template<class T1, class T2>
+ inline _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Ptr_cat(T1 **, T2 **) {
+ _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Cat;
+ return _Cat;
+ }
+
+ template<class T1, class T2>
+ inline _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Ptr_cat(T1* const *, T2 **) {
+ _Scalar_ptr_iterator_tag _Cat;
+ return _Cat;
+ }
+#else
+// FIXME: It is not clear if the problem is fixed in VS 2005. What is clear
+// is that the above hack won't work if it wasn't fixed.
+#endif
+}
+#endif
+